1373

This article is about the year 1373. For the number, see 1373 (number). For other uses, see 1373 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	13th century – 14th century – 15th century
Decades:	1340s  1350s  1360s  – 1370s –  1380s  1390s  1400s
Years:	1370 1371 1372 – 1373 – 1374 1375 1376

1373 by topic

Politics

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Art and literature

1373 in poetry

1373 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1373 MCCCLXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2126
Armenian calendar	822 ԹՎ ՊԻԲ
Assyrian calendar	6123
Bengali calendar	780
Berber calendar	2323
English Regnal year	46 Edw. 3 – 47 Edw. 3
Buddhist calendar	1917
Burmese calendar	735
Byzantine calendar	6881–6882
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 4069 or 4009     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4070 or 4010
Coptic calendar	1089–1090
Discordian calendar	2539
Ethiopian calendar	1365–1366
Hebrew calendar	5133–5134
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1429–1430
- Shaka Samvat	1295–1296
- Kali Yuga	4474–4475
Holocene calendar	11373
Igbo calendar	373–374
Iranian calendar	751–752
Islamic calendar	774–775
Japanese calendar	Ōan 6 (応安６年)
Julian calendar	1373 MCCCLXXIII
Korean calendar	3706
Minguo calendar	539 before ROC 民前539年
Thai solar calendar	1915–1916

Year 1373 (MCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• March 24 – The Treaty of Santarém is signed between D. Fernando of Portugal and Henrique II of Castile, ending the second war between the two countries.
• May 13 – Julian of Norwich receives the sixteen Revelations of Divine Love.

Date unknown

• Bristol is made an independent county.
• The Anglo-Portuguese alliance is signed (currently the oldest active treaty in the world).
• The city of Phnom Penh (now the capital city of Cambodia) is founded.
• Philip II of Taranto hands over the rule of Achaea (now southern Greece) to his cousin, Joanna I of Naples.
• Leo VI succeeds his distant cousin, Constantine VI, as King of Armenian Cilicia (now southern Turkey).
• A city wall is built around Lisbon, Portugal to resist invasion by Castile.
• Tran Kinh succeeds Tran Phu as King of Vietnam.
• Byzantine co-emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos rebels against his father, John V Palaiologos, for agreeing to let Constantinople become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. After the rebellion fails, Ottoman Emperor Murad I commands John V Palaiologos to blind his son.
• The death of Sultan Muhammad as-Said begins a period of political instability in Morocco.
• Merton College Library is built in Oxford, England.
• The Adina Mosque is built in Bengal.
• The Chinese emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor, suspends the traditional civil service examination system after complaining that the 120 new jinshi degree-holders are too incompetent to hold office; he instead relies solely upon a system of recommendations until the civil service exams are reinstated in 1384.

Births

• March 29 – Marie of Alencon, French princess (d. 1417)
• June 23 – Queen Joan II of Naples (d. 1435)
• September 22 – Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester (d. 1400)
• date unknown
  • Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (d. 1415)
  • Margery Kempe, writer of the first autobiography in English

Deaths

• January 16 – Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342)
• February – Ibn Kathir, Islamic scholar (b. 1301)
• July 23 – Saint Birgitta, Swedish saint (b. 1303)
• November 3 – Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (b. 1343)
• December 7 – Rafał z Tarnowa, Polish nobleman (b. c. 1330)
• date unknown
  • Constantine VI of Armenia (assassinated)
  • Robert le Coq, French bishop and councillor